{"id":10517,"date":"2013-07-17T10:10:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T15:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10517"},"modified":"2013-07-17T10:10:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T15:10:34","slug":"why-are-us-cell-carriers-suddenly-pushing-you-to-upgrade-faster-for-the-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10517","title":{"rendered":"Why are US cell carriers suddenly pushing you to upgrade faster? For the money"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>So why is this <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/07\/16\/us-carrier-growth-fees-smartphone-upgrades\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed\">happening<\/a>\u00a0all of a sudden? Put simply, the American mobile market is <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/2013\/06\/half-of-us-already-has-smartphones-so-mobile-carriers-push-us-to-spend-more\/\">highly saturated<\/a>\u2014there are fewer and fewer new customers for these carriers. Only 1.1 million Americans got mobile phones for the first time in the first quarter of 2013\u2014the lowest ever growth for that market. Q1 2012 saw around 1.83 million new additions, which shows a quarter-over-quarter loss of 60 percent this year. Meanwhile, there was a modest quarter-over-quarter gain in prepaid customers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/2013\/07\/why-are-us-cell-carriers-suddenly-pushing-you-to-upgrade-faster-for-the-money\/\">Why are US cell carriers suddenly pushing you to upgrade faster? For the money | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So why is this happening\u00a0all of a sudden? Put simply, the American mobile market is highly saturated\u2014there are fewer and fewer new customers for these carriers. Only 1.1 million Americans got mobile phones for the first time in the first &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10517\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[442,103,227,1168],"class_list":["post-10517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business-model","tag-market-analysis","tag-mobile","tag-new-shiny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}